AusRegistry International announced this month it has won a lucrative contract with the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the Sultanate of Oman to operate software services for the .OM Omani country code Top Level Domain. AusRegistry International is particularly pleased with the new Oman contract as it puts them in the position as a market leader in the region and complements similar projects currently underway in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. This is in addition to its consulting work for South Africa’s .ZA ccTLD, the largest in Africa

A screenshot from i/o’s website shows its data center located in New Jersey (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator i/o Data Centers ( www.iodatacenters.com ) announced on Wednesday the openeing of its modular data center in Edison, New Jersey.

Website Hosting News – McLean, VA – ServInt , a pioneering provider of managed hosting for enterprises worldwide, today announced it has leased more than one-half a megawatt of data center capacity at CoreSite Realty Corp.’s expanded facility in Reston, Va., which is now under construction. CoreSite is a national provider of powerful, network-rich data centers. Grubb & Ellis Associate Vice President David Horowitz and Senior Vice President William Moser, both in the Company’s National Data Center Practice, represented ServInt in this leasing transaction.

AT&T (NYSE: T) is helping a commercial real estate giant transform itself from a network of independent real estate firms into a unified global service organization. AT&T will provide the Web hosting, infrastructure and all the necessary voice and data telecommunication services to Collier’s International over four years to seamlessly link 129 Colliers offices across 13 countries throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Data Centers Canada Opens New Office In Vaughan, Ontario Web Hosting News – Vaughan, Ontario Canada – Data Centers Canada a data center provider which operates, develops and manages Canadian real estate for the purpose of providing turn-key data center solutions including colocation and disaster recovery solutions for enterprises, today announced that it has opened an additional regional office in the City of Vaughan, Ontario. “We continue to grow our Canadian centric data center practice”, said Tony Di Benedetto, Managing Partner at Data Centers Canada.

An image from Data Centers Canada’s Toronto North facility (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Canadian data center operator Data Centers Canada ( www.datacenterscanada.com ) announced on Thursday it has opened an additional regional office in Vaughan, Ontario. “We continue to grow our Canadian centric data center practice,” says Tony Di Benedetto, managing partner at Data Centers Canada

Netcraft’s graph showing the number of Amazon and non-Amazon web servers in the past decade (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Amazon has acquired a former supermarket warehouse at Greenhills Industrial Estate near Dublin for the purpose of converting into a data center to meet the needs of its growing cloud computing services, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge . The company recently acquired a 240,000 square foot building that was previously used as a storage house for UK supermarket chain Tesco.  Amazon has also leased space for data center expansion in the Snughborough Industrial Estate in Ballycoolin and the Clonshaugh Industrial Estate, both of which are located in the Dublin area. Amazon Web Services previously opened a facility in Dublin back in December 2008 to house the European availablity zones for its EC2 cloud computing services

Chicago Tribune announced recently the sale of BuyOwner.com real estate website for $1 million .We’re not talking about the sale of just a domain name,but the sale of a real estate website . It seems that Jonathan Holbrook bought the website.Moreover,he told Daily Business Review that he intends to close the deal today and that the process will be split among the company’s creditors . The company’s revenue seems to have declined since 2008,from $28 million to $250,000 ,says Chicago Tribune .Moreover,the company managed to generate about $588,000 since July.However,after all the expenses were paid,the company netted only $56,000 .

Hosting News – Fremont, CA – TELADATA, a leading consulting firm specializing in IT infrastructure design, planning and project management, today announced that its 2011 Technology Convergence Conference will feature a panel discussion, titled East Meets West, on data center efficiency. During the discussion, panel members from East Coast financial firms and West Cost Technology companies will engage in spirited discussion of their companies’ respective methodologies for maximizing the efficiency of legacy and newly designed data centers. The panel will be moderated by Derek Schwartz of the Green Data Center Alliance and will feature participants from some of the top technology and financial services firms, including Chris Street, VP of Global Data Center Strategy at Amazon, Doug Alger, IT Architect at Cisco Systems, William Udall, Vice President of Energy Efficiency in Data Centers at JP Morgan Chase, and David Shroyer, Controls Engineer at NetApp

With DOMAINfest Global less than two weeks away, the organisers have been spruiking the party element, or more appropriately from a business point of view, the social networking element of the conference. With the weather likely to be mild, the first party is a Polynesian Paradise Party where you will head straight for the golden era of Hollywood on Wednesday night. Then Thursday is the Playboy Mansion blast.